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R. U. R.

AKA Rossum's Universal Robots (first use of the term "robot" in any language). Play translated by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair.

By Karel Capek

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9781475071900 | Createspace, March 22, 2012, cover price $6.99

9781419143755 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2004, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: AKA Rossum's Universal Robots (first use of the term "robot" in any language).

9780671466053 | Pocket Books, March 1, 1970, cover price $0.75 | About this edition: Quality ClassicsWe specialize in creating hard to find, high quality classic books optimized for the Kindle.

War With the Newts

Amazon.com Review: An unjustly forgotten masterpiece of anti-utopian fantasy that is possibly the equal of Orwell's Animal Farm. Capek writes of an avaricious Dutch seaman who discovers a race of bipedal and intelligent newts in Sumatra that is initially lauded as the equal of the human race, but that is subsequently conscripted into the service of man and then ...read more

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9780810107007 | Northwestern Univ Pr, April 1, 1985, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Perhaps Capek's greatest novel, "War With the Newts" is both charming and frightening: a fantasy in which human history is gradually - but appallingly - altered by the discovery on a remote island of a race of highly intelligent salamanders.

9780404146498 | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1976, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

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9781612190235, titled "The War With the Newts" | Melville Pub House, August 28, 2012, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

9789231035999 | UNESCO, May 1, 1999, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: One of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century, an inspiration to writers from Orwell to Vonnegut, at last in a modern translation.

9780810114685 | Reissue edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, October 7, 1996), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Perhaps Capek's greatest novel, "War With the Newts" is both charming and frightening: a fantasy in which human history is gradually - but appallingly - altered by the discovery on a remote island of a race of highly intelligent salamanders.

9780945774105 | Catbird Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Humans discover and exploit a species of giant, intelligent newt, until the newts gain enough weapons and skills to challenge them

The Absolute at Large

Product Description: The Absolute at Large By KAREL CAPE. First published in 1927.CONTENTS: CHAPTER PAOBI The Advertisement 7 The Karbitrator n Pantheism 17IV. God in the Cellar, 23V Bishop Linda 29VI The BoardMeeting 36VII Developments 41VIII The Dredge 46IX The Ceremony 53X Saint Ellen 59XI...read more

By Karel Capek

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9781443725316 | Read Books, November 30, 2008, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: The Absolute at Large By KAREL CAPE.

9780883551042 | Hyperion Pr, June 1, 1974, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: In this satirical classic, a brilliant scientist invents the Karburator, a reactor that can create abundant and practically free energy.

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9781406734508 | Hesperides Pr, November 30, 2006, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

9780803264595 | Bison Books, August 24, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In this satirical classic, a brilliant scientist invents the Karburator, a reactor that can create abundant and practically free energy.

La guerra de las salamandras/ War with the newts

Product Description: Un capitan descubre una especie de salamandras inteligentes en la costa de Sumatra. Les enseÃ±a a hablar y con el tiempo se convierten en mano de obra barata para los empresarios de Occidente Pero llega un momento en que ya no estan dispuestas a aceptar esta situacion y reclaman el lugar que creen que les corresponde en la escala evolutiva...read more

By Karel Capek

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9788492516339 | Sirio Editorial, November 1, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Un capitan descubre una especie de salamandras inteligentes en la costa de Sumatra.

R.u.r.

Product Description: Karel Capek's play is set in a future when all work is carried out by robots manufactured by Rossum's Universal Robots. Feeling sorry for the emotionless robots, the headstrong Helena persuades the company to factor emotion into them...read more

By Karel Capek

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9781602838161 | Unabridged edition (Audiogo, January 5, 2010), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Karel Capek's play is set in a future when all work is carried out by robots manufactured by Rossum's Universal Robots.

9781408400456 | Bbc Pubns, August 14, 2008, cover price $21.65

Letters from Spain

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

By Karel Capek

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9781406729474 | Lightning Source Inc, March 30, 2007, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Intimate Things

By Karel Capek

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9780836902754 | Facsimile edition (Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1936), cover price $18.95

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9781406717020 | Lightning Source Inc, March 30, 2007, cover price $27.45 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

The Gardener's Year

Product Description: It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still more seldom that a book on gardening can amuse and instruct even those who have no garden to plant., nor the faintest interest in acquiring one...read more

By Karel Capek

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9780826474612, titled "The Gardener's Year" | Continuum Intl Pub Group, June 30, 2005, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still more seldom that a book on gardening can amuse and instruct even those who have no garden to plant.

9781870626699, titled "The Gardener's Year" | Claridge Pr, September 30, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this beginner's guide to amateur gardening, Geoffrey Newsome-the highly acclaimed translator of Capek's witty Letters from England-has captured the grace and irony of the original Czech to produce a volume that will be treasured equally by those who love gardening as a relaxation, those who loathe it as a chore, and those who have no interest in it whatsoever.

9780299100209, titled "The Gardener's Year" | Reprint edition (Univ of Wisconsin Pr, September 1, 1984), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Karel Capek's The Gardener's Year is a timeless classic of wit and wisdom, sure to capture the heart and imagination of every gardener—indeed, everyone who has pursued any hobby with a passion that occasionally overrides good common sense.

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9780826486257, titled "The Gardener's Year" | Continuum Intl Pub Group, November 30, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still more seldom that a book on gardening can amuse and instruct even those who have no garden to plant.

9780375759482, titled "The Gardener's Year" | Modern Library, February 1, 2002, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: From the internationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek comes this beautifully written and marvelously apt account of the trials and tribulations of the gardener’s life.

9780299100247, titled "The Gardener's Year" | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, September 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Karel Capek's The Gardener's Year is a timeless classic of wit and wisdom, sure to capture the heart and imagination of every gardener—indeed, everyone who has pursued any hobby with a passion that occasionally overrides good common sense.

Letters from England

Product Description: Humorous, insightful, and imbued with profound humanity, these letters convey a bemused admiration for a country that in the 1920s still lived according to the memory of its greatness. With a light touch and artistic flourish, Capek described the virtues and vices of Europe's oldest democracy for the benefit of the citizens of Europe's newest...read more

By Karel Capek and Roger Scruton (foreword by)

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9781870626576 | Claridge Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Humorous, insightful, and imbued with profound humanity, these letters convey a bemused admiration for a country that in the 1920s still lived according to the memory of its greatness.

Letters From England

Product Description: Anyone in search of England can do no better than to take up Karel Capek's Letters from England. Humorous, insightful and imbued with a profound humanity, Capek's letters convey a bemused admiration for a country which in the 1920's still lived according to the memory of its greatness...read more

By Karel Capek, Geoffrey Newsome (trans) and Roger Scruton (foreword by)

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9780826484857 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, January 1, 2005, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Anyone in search of England can do no better than to take up Karel Capek's Letters from England.

R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots

Product Description: R.U.R.—written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922—garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capek’s Robots are an android product—they remember everything but think of nothing new...read more

By Karel Capek

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9780141182087, titled "R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)" | Penguin Classics, March 1, 2004, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: R.

9780486419268 | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, August 1, 2001), cover price $2.50 | About this edition: Great play, that introduced the word "robot" into English, looks to a future in which all workers are automatons.

Nueve cuentos y uno de propina / Nine Stories and a Tip

By Karel Capek

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9788478446933 | Siruela, June 30, 2003, cover price $18.95

2000x: Tales of the Next Millennia

A collection of futuristic tales from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning authors includes 'Pillar of Fire' by Ray Bradbury, 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow' by Kurt Vonnegut, and 'Repent Harlequin!' by Harlan Ellison. Read by Richard Dreyfus, Robin Williams, et al.

By Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Octavia E. Butler, Karel Capek, Richard Dreyfuss (narrator), Charles Durning (narrator), Harlan Ellison, Robert A. Heinlein, Arte Johnson (narrator), C. L. Moore, A. E. Van Vogt, Kurt Vonnegut and Connie Willis

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9781574535303 | Unabridged edition (Audio Literature, October 1, 2002), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: A collection of futuristic tales includes 'Pillar of Fire' by Ray Bradbury, 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow' by Kurt Vonnegut, and ''Repent, Harlequin!

R.U.R.: (Rossum's Uiniversal Robots)

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By Karel Capek, William-Alan Landes (editor), Nigel Playfair (trans) and Paul Selver (trans)

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9780887347993 | Players Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Quality ClassicsWe specialize in creating hard to find, high quality classic books optimized for the Kindle.

Cross Roads

Product Description: Written during and right after World War I, this volume pairs two short story collections from Karel Capek, considered one of the greatest Czech writers. The first collection, Wayside Crosses,” presents an agonized and unsuccessful search for God and truth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Karel Capek and Norma Comrada

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9780945774549 | 1 edition (Catbird Pr, July 1, 2002), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Written during and right after World War I, this volume pairs two short story collections from Karel Capek, considered one of the greatest Czech writers.

Miscellaneous:

9781936053148 | Catbird Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $9.99

Cross Roads

Product Description: Written during and right after World War I, this volume pairs two short story collections from Karel Capek, considered one of the greatest Czech writers. The first collection, “Wayside Crosses,” presents an agonized and unsuccessful search for God and truth...read more

By Karel Capek

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9780945774556 | 1 edition (Catbird Pr, July 1, 2002), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Written during and right after World War I, this volume pairs two short story collections from Karel Capek, considered one of the greatest Czech writers.

9780945774501 | Catbird Pr, July 1, 2001, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Written during and right after World War I, this volume pairs two short story collections from Karel Capek, considered one of the greatest Czech writers.

Capek Four Plays: R.U.R./the Insect Play/the Makropulos Case/the White Plague

Product Description: This volume brings together fresh new translations of four of his most popular plays, more than ever relevant today. In R. U. R., the Robot - an idea Çapek was the first to invent - gradually takes over all aspects of human existence except procreation; The Insect Play is a satirical fable in which beetles, butterflies and ants give dramatic form to different philosophies of life; The Makropulos Case is a fantasy about human mortality, finally celebrating the average lifespan; The White Plague is a savage and anguished satire against fascist dictatorship and the virus of inhumanity...read more

By Karel Capek, Peter Majer (trans) and Cathy Porter

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9780413771902 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This volume brings together fresh new translations of four of his most popular plays, more than ever relevant today.

Apocryphal Tales

An anthology of stories presenting famous events from the point of view of the man in the street. In one story, a baker describes Jesus' miracle of loaves and fish, in another, townspeople argue who is to blame for the invasion of the Huns. Thirty stories in all.Tales told from the perspectives of figures in Greek and Roman history, the Bible, and the plays of Shakespeare include a story of Hamlet considering whether or not to become an actor, and townspeople arguing over who should be blamed for the approachinghordes of Attila the Hun (view table of contents)

By Karel Capek and Norma Comrada (trans)

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9780945774341 | Catbird Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An anthology of stories presenting famous events from the point of view of the man in the street.

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9781936053117 | Catbird Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $9.99

Nine Fairy Tales: And One More Thrown in for Good Measure

Modern fairy tales mix fairies, elves, talking animals, and supernaturual beings with detectives, mailmen, secret police, and Hollywood stars

By Josef Capek (illustrator), Karel Capek and Dagmar Herrmann (trans)

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9780810114647 | Reissue edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, October 1, 1996), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Modern fairy tales mix fairies, elves, talking animals, and supernaturual beings with detectives, mailmen, secret police, and Hollywood stars

Talks With T.G. Masaryk

Product Description: Never have two such important world figures collaborated in a biography: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (18501937), the original philosopher-president who founded Czechoslovakia in 1918, and Karel Capek (18901938), the leading Czech writer of the time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Karel Capek and Michael Henry Heim (editor)

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9780945774273 | Catbird Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Never have two such important world figures collaborated in a biography: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (18501937), the original philosopher-president who founded Czechoslovakia in 1918, and Karel Capek (18901938), the leading Czech writer of the time.

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9780945774266 | Catbird Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Never have two such important world figures collaborated in a biography: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (18501937), the original philosopher-president who founded Czechoslovakia in 1918, and Karel Capek (18901938), the leading Czech writer of the time.

Tales from Two Pockets

Product Description: Capek wrote 48 stories that deconstruct the mystery story by breaking one rule here, three rules there, and yet also make for wonderful reading. His unique approaches to the mysteries of justice and truth are full of the ordinary and the extraordinary, humor and humanism. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Karel Capek and Norma Comrada (trans)

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9780945774259 | Catbird Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Capek wrote 48 stories that deconstruct the mystery story by breaking one rule here, three rules there, and yet also make for wonderful reading.

Miscellaneous:

9781936053056 | Catbird Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $9.99

Nine Fairy Tales by Karel Capek and One More Thrown in for Good Measure: And One More Thrown in for Good Measure

Modern fairy tales mix fairies, elves, talking animals, and supernatural beings with detectives, mailmen, secret police, and Hollywood stars

By Karel Capek and Dagmar Herrmann (trans)

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9780810108646 | Northwestern Univ Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Modern fairy tales mix fairies, elves, talking animals, and supernatural beings with detectives, mailmen, secret police, and Hollywood stars

Nine Fairy Tales by Karel Capek and One More Thrown in for Good Measure

Modern fairy tales mix fairies, elves, talking animals, and supernatural beings with detectives, mailmen, secret police, and Hollywood stars

By Karel Capek and Dagmar Herrmann (trans)

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9780810108653 | Northwestern Univ Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Modern fairy tales mix fairies, elves, talking animals, and supernatural beings with detectives, mailmen, secret police, and Hollywood stars

Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Capek Reader

Includes a selection of Capek's best plays, stories, columns, essays, and travel writing, all newly translated or modernized

By Karel Capek and Peter Kussi (editor)

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9780945774068 | Catbird Pr, March 1, 1990, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Includes a selection of Capek's best plays, stories, columns, essays, and travel writing, all newly translated or modernized

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9780945774075 | Catbird Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Includes a selection of Capek's best plays, stories, columns, essays, and travel writing, all newly translated or modernized

Three Novels: Hordubal, Meteor, an Ordinary Life

Detectives attempt to reconstruct a murder, three people tell stories about a dying man they really didn't know, and one man looks back on all the people he might have been

By Karel Capek

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9780945774082 | Reprint edition (Catbird Pr, February 1, 1990), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Detectives attempt to reconstruct a murder, three people tell stories about a dying man they really didn't know, and one man looks back on all the people he might have been

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